At least 830,000 Venezuelan children live without their parents who have left the country, looking for jobs that allow them to send money to support them.

–Researched and Written by Carmen Swafford— Coping with the pandemic has created detrimental effects on society. Not only did the quarantine lead to the economic collapse and the complete shutdown of civilization, but the confinement also created dangerous environments for vulnerable women. While every other aspect of society declined, gender-based violence and femicides increased due

For the past year, more than 60 families from the Amazon have organized to form a collective to demand the exhumation and identification of their relatives, who were killed by COVID-19 and clandestinely buried 15 minutes from Iquitos.

The Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB) found that COVID-19-related Indigenous deaths between February and October of 2020 were double the number reported by Brazil’s Ministry of Health.

In Panama, 1,384 of the 3,107 public schools in the country do not have internet. In other words, 44.5% of the schools lack this tool to carry out the teaching and learning process.

A team of women educate young entrepreneurs about selling their products online.

New studies have found that the coronavirus pandemic has been negatively affecting the mental health of an overwhelming number of children and adolescents in Peru.

The theatre collective Acuenda, a group formed in 2014 by young actors from Eastern São Paulo, is putting on virtual performances of the play “Periferida” this month across various platforms, a piece that highlights important LGBT themes.

Given the complications brought about by 2020, total poverty in Paraguay increased by 3.4% compared to the previous year.

According to a recent World Bank report, 2.3 million middle-class Chileans fell into vulnerability as a result of job losses during the pandemic.